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Comment by pstadler | Hacker News Reader

Shameless plug: I wrote a little guide[1] how to use keybase.io and GPG to sign git commits. It was posted on HN a while ago[2].

  "Ironically, only the first commit is signed."

[1] https://github.com/pstadler/keybase-gpg-github [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12289481

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Meta-HN-Comment: Annoying how HN locks post voting & commenting and you can't repost the link either. Anyone know what HN's reasoning on this is, or for that matter, why there's not a meta-HN?

(If my use of meta is unclear, see how Stack Exchange uses it.)

I don't know why HN locks voting. I think it's about preserving history - that was the reason given for the short time available to unvote or undown a comment. (In this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12073675 )

HN has a duplicate detector. You're allowed to repost things that are on topic and that didn't get much conversation, so long as you don't do it too much. That link got > 100 comments and > 200 votes, so that counts (I think) as substantial discussion. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7544123

HN doesn't have a meta because META == DEATH.

I'm tempted to set up a totally unofficial unsupported HN Meta community on Imzy, but it's probably a bad idea.

Have you read Jeff Atwood's Meta is Murder, and his subsequent Listen to Your Community, But Don't Let Them Tell You What to Do? meta.stackexchange.com and its sister sites have as far as I can tell been very successful.

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